Alright, everything is connected and showing power, green light is on the board, show its got power to it. Now, everthing is hooked up correctly from what it seems. When I go to put the CD in for windows xp....it lets me boot from it, checks my system, everything is fine. However, when it goes by the SCSI or RAID setting, or the Kernel to debugging files and Windows Executive....it stops. My HD LED on the case blinks and then it will stop. My KB (compaq one) will stay lit on numlock and I cant turn it off. If anyone has any clues, Im willing to listen. Its ticking me off to say the least. Ive reseated every connection, cleaned everything up, HD Worked earlier in the day in old computer....though I Didnt format it or anything before installing. Any ideas?

the other optical drive, while getting power, isnt showing up in the bios at all. Perhaps I need to make the jumper set to slave. AHA! could that be it. running both on an EIDE as masters, but the HP is showing up? In the bios, it has all these letters and numbers identifying it....

Well Im at work right now. But I bet that is the problem. Ill get home today and do it (get off around 320pm USA CST time.) Ill do a quick look for my samsung and make sure the jumper position is correct. Should just get me all SATA drives ::rofl::

Heh don't know no about all SATA being any better... I have come by my few issues with sata installs also where they require a 3rd party driver and it comes on a floppy... And my luck not having a floppy drive that really works laying around.

Im just hoping the jumper switch will make it work. Then, Ill have to have my sister get her a SATA HD from Walmart or something so it will work on my old system. Seems the EIDE isnt too fond of that system at all.